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“Happy 2013! The year in which we will reinitiate the system.” This was the first message that appeared on Twitter on December 31st at midnight from Partido X, Partido del Futuro (Party X, Party of the Future), a new political group that has burst onto the Spanish Internet scene with force. In less than two days and with only three tweets, it has gotten over 2,500 followers.

@Partido_X tweeted a teaser online in which it presents itself as a “citizen operation to evacuate the parliament.” With the esthetics and narrative of an old sci-fi movie, they declare that they come from the future, where there has been a triumph of “democracy, period.”

It deals with a declaration of war against traditional parties, which the Partido del Futuro promises to develop with concrete proposals next Tuesday, when they will grant the public access to their website. “Pardon us if we make you wait until the 8th. Being wary of a party is essential. Thank you for your mistrust,” they wrote on Twitter.

The new group registered itself in the list of parties at the Spanish Internal Ministry on December 17 and is made up of at least hundreds of people from all over Spain, ranging from Catalonia to Valencia and Andalusia, passing through Madrid, Navarra and Galicia. It is making itself known anonymously, to avoid attracting attention and break away from creating conventional policies. “We are what we do and so far we haven't done anything,” they explain. They also separate themselves from the 15M (the Spanish indignant movement) although they share many of their messages and citizen petitions, which they have articulated under their umbrella for the past two years.

Partido del Futuro Spain. Taken from their Facebook page.

Inciting the enigma and suspense with much humor, the Partido del Futuro has generated a good discussion and a lot of excitement online. The teaser was viewed over 17,000 times and their Facebook page [es] already has more than 800 fans. Additionally, it gave birth to a replica of parties with letters that reproduce like mushrooms and interact quite ironically amongst one another and other users: from Party Z [es], Party V [es], Party Y [es], Party A [es] and Party W [es] to Party THC [es] or Party OBDC [es], among others.

They affirm that they are serious and will “raise the curtain” on the 8th to present their proposals and the “democracy, period” model, without intermediaries, to which they aspire: currently they only say that it will be a collaborative plan in phases, in which everyone will be able to participate.

“We haven't come here to promise you anything. We have come to offer you some tools to transform an unpresentable present,” they explain. They say it is about returning power to the people.